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When you consider the furor that has been raised over HIPAA data breaches for the past five years – and the fact that it has contributed heavily towards medical organizations investing in the use of medical file encryption software like AlertBoot – it...

The Wall Street Journal has an article on how certain executives are questioning the value of notifying the general public on company data breaches. The pay-walled article notes that there are valid reasons against more transparency. The thing is, most...

It escaped my notice, so I'm opining on this three weeks late – to be honest, a quick search seems to indicate that almost no one covered this particular development – but Los Angeles County has moved to up their data security by pursuing workstation...

Desktop computer encryption under HIPAA: is it really necessary? Most people have argued over the years that the answer is "no," not only because the use of encryption software under HIPAA rules happen to be addressable (as opposed to required...

South Carolina is in the news again for a data breach that occurred in 2012. If you'll recall, that was the year when SC admitted that its tax collection department had suffered a data breach, affecting 6.4 million people . Two years after, the effects...

According to the folks at phiprivacy.net , the recent addition of twenty-nine data breaches to the HHS "Wall of Shame" show that laptop and desktop computers still account for approximately half of all medical data breaches. This indicates two...